Life without music is no life at all.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.